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Buttars troubles spread: Little appetite in House for registry bill
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Hopefully in the next election the citizens of Senator Buttars district will elect someone who will represent the interest of the citizens rather than the extremist causes of the Eagle Forum.
But Gayle! Everything you hear is opposite of reality! Why don't you go home and tend to your own family, and quit worrying about everyone else's.
I would also encourage some mercy for Buttars, not because what he said was acceptable, he needs counseling, but because his life or career should not be destroyed because of poorly chosen words. I think the poetry slam was a clear indication how his words are disgraceful, but they were only words. We shouldn't fight hate with hate.
There is no merit whatsoever to getting rid of the registry bill.
You overestimate her parenting skills. She's had her fair share of domestic messiness, no doubt due to the fact that she spends more time trying to run the lives of other people than tending to her own affairs.
That said, I wonder why the media even bother to quote her anymore. She becomes more and more irrelevant with each passing day. Legislators (other than Buttars) are learning that you can say "NO" to her and survive politically. Huntsman ignores her and has no problem staying afloat.
But by now I am just plain fedup with "multiculturalism" and at the way race and accusations of "racism" have polluted every political debate we have. There are too many issues that we're not allowed to discuss anymore because taking one side is supposedly "racist." Illegal immigration, legal immigration, welfare reform, education reform, hiring policies, lending policies (and the subsequent mortgage crash boondoggle caused by it). The list goes on and on and on.
We're supposed to "celebrate diversity," but besides greater selection of cuisine there seems to be scarce little to celebrate. It appears the diverse peoples of this nation will spend the rest of eternity at each other's throats and ears, shouting cries of "racism."
So just tap your shoes and shout "there's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home."
Even if it did help only gays, so what? I would be very disapointed if any of my kids turned out to be gay, but at the same time I would recognize that it is not their fault, any more than it is my fault that I am straight.
I believe it is wrong to focus on gays in such a way that you spend time thinking of ways to make their life miserable.
I disagree with religions that imply that people are not born this way. I have read several accounts of gay people who say they had these feelings as long as they can remember. One of these accounts was several months ago in the Deseret News, a gay person who although he was gay chose to get married because he believed this is what God wanted of him due to his LDS teachings.
He said it was repugnant to him, the thought of having relations with a woman.
Love is the greatest commandment, remember this.
People like you, and "David" and "Adding" just show how far we still need to go in Utah to have a civil culture.
I was one who was believing that the need for organizations such as the "NAACP" were disappearing and people were beginning to understand each other, but, you continue to prove that we have a long way to go.
So far as immigration reform goes please convince me this isn't race based. If it is the law you care about, why no mention that for years Utah's have been flouting the speed limit?
You may be more comfortable excluding these people from coming here, but these people may be more comfortable if people like you weren't here either, and given history, you scarcely have more rights here than they do.
Also, If it is only the law and not that people like you supposedly care so much about, why don't I hear anything from you about lets start adhering to the Indian treaties where we by breaking them we took so much of their land wrongfully.
No mister, given history, you have no rights to get what you want in this case. You only care about law when you believe it is in your favor.
They are not doing the peoples business
They have a new parking Garage
Nuff said.
It has made him an impotent legislator.
"I as well find the T-Shirt the girl is wearing all racist!"
Please explain, how is the t-shirt racist?
Nah, I'm being crazy. They're just scared of being linked to Buttars, the man who puts the 'tar' in Utard.
To stop and destroy any conservative voice or voice they disagree with.
There is NO tolerance with them. It's the liberal way or the highway.
The fact is people are free to hate and voice that hate. Except some groups want especial protection while believing others are fair game.
It looks like it time the whites need to start defending each other rather than bending over and grabbing their ankles for the blacks or any other special interest group.
The motto for this country is: e pluribus unum.
The many are one. NOT the many stay the many.
The black want to be different have there own culture and language.
The mexicans want to there own culture and language.
The gays want there own thing.
And on and on.
But this separation is only tearing apart the country.
Diversity does not work.
The many must be one or the many will fail.
Second time this week the term "liberal facist" has poppped up in a blog.
So Jonah Goldberg is trying to coin a phrase, it does not make it real.
There is no totalitarian liberal government in Utah.
If anything the state is run by conservatists. To be a facist you need to have the power.
I am a conservative republican and I think Buttars is way off on just about anything, but I can't say that without 3:07 poster calling names that poster 3:07 uses incorrectly.
"It looks like it time the whites need to start defending each other".
Don't defend us with bigotry and racism please.
e pluribus unum does not mean "The many are one". It means "Out of many, one". Everything in your post suggests segregation and intolerance.
Diversity does work. Intolerance does not.
Hitler, Stalin, Chavez in Venezuala, all facists that were intolerant.
Oh, and 3:07 poster too.
Waiting for someone to sue Salt Lake City over this registry is a cowardly and risky approach to government. It is, however, similar to claiming that waiting for the Federal bureaucracy to uphold the law with regard to immigration is appropriate, despite 20 years of history that shows that they either will not, or feel so threatened at this point that they cannot do so.
Right on, Wilkey. As someone brilliantly posted on another tread, "there will always be wars and rumors of wars" basically because of differences, race, religion, you name it. The "melting pot" and "salad bowl" concepts are both crocks. The way we are headed this nation will eventually look like the Balkans.
The Republican dominated Utah legislature is finally showing some guts by not stomaching Butter's sponsored neo-Facist Eagle Forum's homophobic crap that will only cause consternation for the State of Utah and cause untold millions of dollars in legal costs having to defend something that will surely be overturned in Federal court.
butter's and the Eagle Forum are so out of touch with the real reality out there and so wrapped up in their own self serving egocentric view of reality and what is or is not moral according to their own fantasy and phantasmic oriented approach to life... totally out of touch with reality!
The world is not stuck in the primitive and superstitious state of biblical times (something Islam has somehow not even began to realize) and as such those who believe in the teachings from those periods need to quit being literalists concerning same, but take them for the metaphoric truths they represent. As metaphors, they become teachings that allow for democracy, free expression, self-realization and the capacity to not loose one's sense of humanity to the low road of self-importance and self-righteousness.
Republicans in the legislature, please continue being rational, clarified and sensitive to legalities.
BTW... Buttars is a bigot and this is not the first racial comment he has made. I would not want him representing me in any way, shape or form. I hope that he is not a clear representative of West Jordan citizens... but then again, I have too much faith in people.
His sullied reputation will make him ineffective and a blight on that of
the Utah Legislature. He should be encouraged to let this term be his last.
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